Ética, fotoperiodismo e infancia: Imagen del conflicto palestino-israelí en España

The purpose of this research is to identify the specific characteristics of the Spanish press photojournalistic coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when children or teenagers appear in the photographs. In order to achieve this goal we analyzed – using 29 variables – all the pictures published during 2010 (n=26) in six of the most important Spanish newspapers of general press (El Pais, El Mundo, Abc, La Vanguardia) as well as free press (Que! and 20 minutos), which compose 56,65% of the universe of readers. For photojournalists, childhood becomes an intentional icon of violence in the imagery of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The snapshots – which are usually distributed by international information agencies –, homogenized the vision of the confrontation; most of them violate the children’s right to privacy, and frequently infringe settled principles of professional journalistic ethics.